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 | | BART serves major destinations including downtown San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley (which is adjacent the UC campus); the San Francisco and Oakland airports (the latter via a shuttle); and the Oakland Coliseum and Arena. |
 | | BART had been infamous for its 1970s design and technology, from monolithic IBM machines that wouldn't accept crisp bills and generated flimsy tickets that, when wet, jammed faregates (the new machines spit out sturdier smart cards) to stations that well, let's just say that polyester was popular at the time. |
 | | BART is now planning a DMU extension of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line to Antioch in eastern Contra Costa County; it might eventually be extended to Byron or even Tracy, and if local officials will ever settle for anything less than "full" BART, another line might be built from Dublin/Pleasanton to Livermore or perhaps Tracy. |
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